‘ ,, As Castlegar News September 14, 1986 ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY NEWS LUNCHEON SPECIA Monday - Friday Ch : ! Chicken Snack French Fries of JoJo's, your choice of our treshly WONDER WEEKEND FALL HOURS Open Thursday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wouder % S. > 255 Fries | * Beautiful newly remodeled rooms | © Free Continental Breakfast Call (509) 838-8504 or your Travel Agent South 123 Post, Spokane, Washington 99204 CLASSICALISACRED PIANO CONCERT WITH CRAIG WEBBER Saturday, October 4 at 8 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church 809 Merry Creek Road served during Tickets $7.50 available in Nelson at Oliver's Books. Trail ot 18) Books and in at Country Crafters, The Book and Carl's Drugs. Please note: tickets will not be evoilable at the door NEWS PROGRAM TO CHALLENGE COSBY SHOW Editor's nete: Following is the conclusion of a twe-part feature on the new fall TV programs. THURSDAY Okay, budding TV programmers: Let's say Bill Cosby's not on your network. What do you schedule first on Thursday nights? Well, if you're ABC, you give up on entertainment and throw the ball into the news division's court. Our Werld promises a documentary look at an event or period in American histery by combining archival film interviews with “witnesses” who were present and — using a i i certain to generate controversy — actors substituting for historical figures. Recent NBC News defector Linda Ellerbee will co-host. Kay O'Brien, on CBS later in the evening, is “Medical Center” redux, traditional hospital drama starring Patricia Kalember as a young New York surgeon, Lane Smith as her mentor, and Jan Rubes as the chief of surgery. LL TV PREVIEW FRIDAY In search of the youth audience: ABC's Sidekicks is based on last season's Disney show “The Last Electric Knight” with 14-year-old black belt Ernie Reyes Jr. as an orphan and Gil Gerard as the rumpled detective who becomes his guardian. Little hope for survival against “Dallas” and “Miami Vice.” Immediately prior on ABC is Sledge Hammer!, the wildest pilot of this crop, and i of a better timeslot. David Rasche plays the title character in a frequently hilarious takeoff on the Eastwood-Bronson macho-cop school of filmmaking. Also on ABC is Starman, a spinoff from the ‘84 Jeff Bridges movie. Robert Hays assumes the role of the extraterrestrial visitor who, in an updated story, returns to Earth to take custody of his teen-age son (C.B. Barnes) and search for the boy’s missing mother while eluding government pursuers. Shads of “The Fugitive” and “The Immortal” and probably just as doomed. NBC's L.A. Law isn’t just another lawyer show. It will do for the legal profession what “Hill Street Blues” has done for law enforcement and “St. Elsewhere” has done for the medical profession: paint a more realistic portrait of their personal and i lives in a dramatic context leavened with black humor. Ex-“Hill Street” producer Steven Bochco's show centers on @ prestigious L.A. firm; the superb ensemble cast includes Harry Hamlin, Jill Eikenberry, Susan Dey and Corbin Bernsen. Multilayered, intense and enthralling; the season's best. SATURDAY One of TV's certified legends, 75-year-old Lucille NEW SHOWS... (clockwise from top left) Jill Eikenberry of L.A. Low; Lucille Bafll in Life with Lucy; C.B. Barnes and Robert Hays in Storman; Ellen Burstyn, Elaine Stritch, Jesse Tendier and nm Mullally in The Ellen Burstyn Show. Ball, returns in Life With Lucy. Her former “Here's Lucy’ co-star Gale Gordon, 80, is also back as her reluctant hardware-business partner, and Ann Dusenberry is among the supporting cast as Lucy's daughter. ABC has given producer Aaron Spelling a full-yedP, 22-episode commitment, so rest assured that if Lucy can stand the pace of weekly television, her series will be around for awhile. Following on ABC is The Ellen Burstyn Show, which casts the Oscar-winning actress as a college professor in a multi-generational household; Elaine Stritch plays her mother. A New York-based show, the pilot is neither warm nor especially funny, but it well-written and leaves plenty of territory to explore. Certainly it could survive based on the audience likely to be inherited from Lucy Heart of the City, also on ABC, is a terrible title for a messy attempt to combine police action with family drama. Robert Desiderio is a widowed L.A. cop having « difficult time raising two teen-agers. You may have a difficult time sitting through an hour. Sherman Hemsley is back playing a George Jefferson clone in the NBC comedy Amen. He's the head deacon in a Philadelphia church where Clifton Davis (now a real-life preacher who previously starred in “That's My Mama”) is the pastor. Ed Weinberger's (“Taxi”) pilot script has some amusing moments but lacks focus and his show may suffer from limited audience appeal Finally, the prime candidate for dog of the new season: CBC's Dowmtewn starring Michael Nouri (“Flashdance) as an overzealous cop assigned to pro- bation-officer duty. The concept (and not exactly “high concept,” at that): using his ethnically and generationally balanced quarter of parolees on police assignments Millicent Martin and Robert Englund (“V™) are two of his charges. Opposite Ball and Burstyn, Nouri doesn’t stand a chance This Week in DEXTER’S PUB MON. THRU SAT. entertainment throughout the week! MAPLE